Mohammad Hosein Airom - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sar-lashgar Muhammad Husayn Ayrom (سرلشگر محمدحسین آیرم) was a senior military leader of the Pahlavi dynasty

Pahlavi dynasty

The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty consisted of two Iranian/Persian monarchs, father and son Reza Shah Pahlavi (reg. 1925–1941) and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi The Pahlavi dynasty ...

of Iran

Iran

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. He was the nephew of General Teymūr Khan Ayromlou and a first cousin of Queen Tadj ol-Molouk Ayromlou. Only some members of the Ayrums family spelled their surname "Ayromlou" with the added suffix "lou".

Born in 1882 in Baku

Baku

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to an Azeri family, Ayrom began studies in Russia

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and soon began military training. The Ayrums became recent arrivals in Iran from the Caucasus

Caucasus

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. Ayrom climbed up the ranks swiftly, becoming a colonel of Iran's cossack brigade

Persian Cossack Brigade

The Persian Cossack Brigade was an elite cavalry unit formed in 1879 in Iran. During much of their history they were the only functional, effective military unit of the Qajar Dynasty...

as early as 1901. Muhammad-Hossein was a descendant of the Ayrums tribe which immigrated to Iran from the Caucasus

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.

He became Chief of Iran's Central Police (Shahrbāni)in 1931. At the height of his career, he was viewed as more powerful than a Cabinet member and Reza Shah's right-hand man. His abuses of his position included graft, framing innocent people and smuggling and seeing what was happening to others he pretended to be ill and left Iran permanently.

He died on March 31, 1948 in Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

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while staying there for medical treatment for his illness.

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